 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 頁
...met with two or three odd instances of that general respect which is shown to the good old Knight." " In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets...had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets." " The alarm which brings the blood in the swiftest current to a seaman's heart was now heard in the... | |
 | Mabel C. (Bradley) Birchenough - 1886 - 106 頁
...&c Sixpence. To Australia and New Zealand Eightpence! !! CHAPTER V. THIRD APPROACH. Poets' Corner. " In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets."—ADDISOX, Spectator. after the burial of Spenser near the tomb of Chaucer FHE name " Poets'... | |
 | Eliphalet Oram Lyte - 1886 - 292 頁
...life."..'-Hawthorne. "A felicity which should continue."—Macaulay. "In the poetical quarter I found that there were poets who had no monuments and monuments which had no poets."—Addison (Westminster Abbey). (/) Who or which is preferred to that in non-restrictive clauses... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 頁
...were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his t Cochrane s twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 606 頁
...were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so...had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets. II observed, mdeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments,... | |
 | Richard Lovett - 1890 - 244 頁
...transept, or, as it is generally called, Poets' Corner. Addison's remark still holds true in a measure : ' In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who...had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.' The use of this portion of the church for the burial of literary men did not become general until after... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 252 頁
...were possible for the dead' person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so...that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. 10 In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had... | |
 | 1889 - 396 頁
...paper on Westminster Abbey and its silent inhabitants, speaks of the " poetical quarter," where he " found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets" (Spectator, March 30, 1711). Although John Dart, the author of " Westmonasterium " (1723), has not... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 392 頁
...Person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the Praises which his Friends have be*' stowed upon him, There are others so excessively modest,...deliver the Character of the Person departed in Greek or Hebrewt and by that means are not understood once in a Twelve/month, In the Poetical Quarter, I found... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 490 頁
...were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so...were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which l had no poets. I observed indeed that the present war 2 had filled the church with many of these uninhabited... | |
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Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they... 
